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All ninth graders study at the local 4-H center in this Maine district

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Emily Kaplan for The Hechinger Report. Emily Kaplan for The Hechinger Report. Emily Kaplan for The Hechinger Report. What does it mean to work in a group or get along with others? At the Telstar Freshman Academy in Maine, service learning is included as part of the curriculum. Or to communicate in an effective manner?

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Some colleges seek radical solutions to survive

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Photo: Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images. Colleges are also working to reduce their numbers of dropouts on the principle that it’s cheaper to provide the kind of support required to keep tuition-paying students than to recruit more. When Steve Thorsett crunched the numbers, things looked grim. Will there be more?

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The mindboggling barriers that colleges create — and that end up hurting their own students

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Nancy Lee Sanchez, in red, executive director of the Kaplan Educational Foundation, with students she advises. I think the majority of higher education is complacent” about their dropouts, he said. Sanchez is one of the increasing number of outside coaches finding surprising obstacles that colleges put up in front of students.

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Why Donald Graham Sold Kaplan University to Purdue for $1

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There are many unanswered questions about the unprecedented sale of Kaplan University, a for-profit institution with several online programs but falling enrollments, to Purdue University, one of the top public universities in the nation. Is Kaplan now essentially competing with companies like 2U and other so-called ‘enabler’ providers?

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Child care, car seats and other simple ways to keep teen moms in school

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Credit: Emily Kaplan for The Hechinger Report. “My And pregnancy is more common among Hispanic teens than among teens in any other racial or ethnic group, except American Indian and Alaska Native teens, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Credit: Emily Kaplan for The Hechinger Report.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “ Student-Loan Borrowers , by Age Group, Amount Owed, and Repayment Status, 2017.” ” There are more stories about Purdue University Global, formerly the for-profit Kaplan University, in the “labor and management” section below.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Via Buzzfeed : “The Education Department Quietly Invited Anti-LGBT Groups To A Father’s Day Event.” ” The groups, Focus on the Family and the Family Research Council , both advocate for “gay conversion therapy.” ” Via Education Dive : “The Purdue-Kaplan Earthquake.”